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1)  July 9, 1859, p. 443, c. 3
verse, “Tobacco and I,” addiction, smoking, and women using snuff

2)  April 26, 1862, p. 272, c. 3
ad for curing the craving for tobacco [first such ad]

3)  January 4, 1868, p. 16, c. 1
ad, “A New Cure:  Tobacco Antidote,” which “restores sufferers from its deadly effects to robust health”

4)  February 13, 1869, p. 112, c. 3
ad, “Tobacco Antidote”

5)  October 4, 1884, p. 660, c. 1
ad, help against the toxic effect of tobacco 

6)  April 15, 1893, p. 361, c. 1
ad, “Don’t Tobacco Spit or Smoke Your Life Away”

7)  December 29, 1894, p. 1251, c. 4
ad, “Don’t Stop Tobacco,” use  “cure” while still using

8)  November 7, 1896, p. 1107, c. 3-4
illustrated ad for the Keeley Treatment

9)  April 11, 1896, p. 368
ad, “Coffin Nails,” full page, illustrated

10)  February 5, 1898, p. 143
news story, “Science vs. Prejudice”


1)  April 1, 1865, p. 199, c. 2-3
“Effects of Smoking,” the denial that smoking causes cancer indicates that some were arguing that it did

2)  May 11, 1872, May 11, 1872
cartoon, “All Smoke,” U.S. Grant smoking cigar

3)  March 14, 1885, p. 163, c. 3
“Personal” column, denial by Grant’s physicians that his cancer of the tongue was caused by smoking, indicating (again) that some were making the connection

4)  January 25, 1890, p. 63, c. 3
“Personal” column, the late Congressman William Kelley had given up tobacco after getting tumor on his cheek and after Grant’s fatal illness


1)  February 2, 1867, p. 67, c. 2-3
editorial (Curtis) “Tobacco,” in which it is stated, “the very prevalent use of tobacco is among the prominent causes of ill-health and positive [i.e., manifest] disease.”

2)  August 3, 1867, p. 483, c. 3
editorial (Curtis), “Capacity of the Human Lungs,” harmed by (among other things) smoking tobacco

3)  September 14, 1867, p. 579, c. 4
editorial (Curtis), “The Consumption of Tobacco,” deplores the worldwide spread of the habit, which causes “people [to] die prematurely of palsy of the heart, cancerous stomachs, and diseased lungs…”

4)  June 5, 1875, p. 463, c. 1
news item, carbon monoxide in smoking tobacco


1)  May 16, 1868, p. 315, c. 4
former smoker attests to renewed vigor.  He concludes, “It did not pay to smoke; but most decidedly it pays to stop smoking.”

2)  February 7, 1885, p. 83, c. 3
“Personal” column, habitual cigar smoking induces headaches and weariness


1)  March 6, 1858, p. 160, c. 3-4
cartoon, blowing smoke in mother-in-law’s face

2)  October 24, 1868, p. 683, c. 4
verse, “A Wife’s Blast Against Tobacco”

3)  October 12, 1872, p. 795, c. 3
“Home and Foreign Gossip” column, urges tobacco users not to smoke in enclosed public places

4)  September 20, 1873, p. S837, c. 3-4
cartoon, “Trying to Find a Friend in the Smoking Car,” part of “Humors of Railroad Travel”


1)  May 26, 1883, p. 336, c. 1-2
cartoon, “A Dream Materialized,” tobacco- and alcohol-induced nightmare

2)  December 31, 1864, p. 848, c. 1-2
girlfriend has stench from smoker-boyfriend

3)  November 17, 1866, p. 736, c. 2-3
“Oh!  The Curtains!” smell lingers in curtains

4)  May 29, 1869, p. 351, c. 2
ad for tobacco perfume

5)  May 26, 1888, p. 379, c. 3-4
“An Interrupted Siesta” (both images)

6)  November 17, 1888, p. 879
“Some Studies of a Gentleman Lighting His Cigar”


1)  February 9, 1867, p. 88
“The Government of the City of New York,” smoke-filled room

2)  August 3, 1872, p. 596
“Baltimore 1861-1872,” Greeley and shoulder-hitter

3)  December 3, 1870, p. 779, c. 3-4
compares workers with boss in and out of office

4)  October 14, 1871, p. S969
illustration of Nast’s “Our Rising Generation”


1)  November 21, 1857, p. 752, c. 4
cartoon, two street urchins smoking

2)  June 6, 1857, p. 368, c. 2-3, cartoon
“The Great Tobacco Question,” cigar vs. pipe

3)  October 12, 1872, p. 795, c. 3
“Home and Foreign Gossip” column, urges tobacco users not to smoke in enclosed public places

4)  September 9, 1882, p. 563, c. 2
editorial (Curtis), “Our Fortunate Boys,” sarcastic criticism of ease with which cigarettes allow boys to begin smoking


1)  January 11, 1868, p. 32, c. 1-2
cartoon, “The Pleasures of Tobacco,” smoking leads to death

2)  October 2, 1869, p. 636, c. 1-4
cartoon, “Physical Education” warns “No Smoking; No Drinking”

3)  July 7, 1883, p. 419, c. 3
“Personal” column item, French medical study shows bad health effects of tobacco use by boys

4)  August 27, 1892, p. 819, c. 1-2
editorial, “Idiosyncrasies of the Cigarette,” worse than cigar or pipe b/c inhaled, and easier for boys to acquire

5)  December 30, 1899, p. 1320, c. 2
item in “This Busy World” column, cigarettes not adulterated, but cigarettes are bad for boys


1)  September 13, 1890, p. 719, c. 3-4
cartoon, “Cigarettes and the Law”

2)  January 13, 1894, p. 27, c. 3
editorial (Schurz), “Cigarettes in the Public Schools,” supports the Board of Education’s crack down on smoking


1)  May 28, 1870, p. 343
article, “The Hero of a Fast Novel,” he smokes perfumed cigarettes

2)  October 14, 1882, p. 651, c. 3-4
cartoon, “Swell Struggling with the Cigarette Poisoner”

3)  February 25, 1882, p. 128, c. 1-2
cartoon, “A Bill To Make Idiots,” Nast, regarding proposal to lower tobacco tax; identifies smokers as “lunatic” and “idiot”

4)  July 12, 1888, p. 527, c. 3
item from “Personal” column:  “Washington is proud of the fact that not one Congressman smokes cigarettes.”

5)  August 13, 1898, p. 802-804
“The Truce,” Americans soldiers chewing tobacco, Spanish smoking cigarettes

6)  August 20, 1898, pp. 829-830, c. 1
“The Taking of Guam,” American sailors using cigars, cigarettes, and chewing tobacco

7)  December 24, 1898, p. 1263, c. 3
item in “This Busy World” column, by E. S. Martin, discusses laws against cigarettes, fear of undermining American manhood, but points out American soldiers in Cuba were smoking them

8)  February 25, 1899, pp. 193 and 196
feature article, “Our New Possessions—Puerto Rico,” discusses the “Tobacco Culture” of the island, argues that making minor changes to the cigarettes would give them a ready market in the United States

9)  March 19, 1898, p. 287, c. 1-2
ad, Nestor brand cigarette, “Oriental Luxuriousness”

10)  January 21, 1899, p. 75, c. 1-2
ad, Nestor brand cigarette, “An absolute necessity to smokers of refined taste”

11)  September 3, 1898, p. 879, c. 4
ad, marketed as “little cigars”

12)  February 18, 1899, p. 179
cigar ad, “They are not a smoke for boys or cigarette smokers.”

13)  August 19, 1899, p. 809, c. 1
item in “This Busy World” column, domestic cigarette production down, but sales of (foreign) luxury cigarettes up


1)  November 28, 1863, p. 766, c. 1
verse, “Cigarettes,” about young women smoking

2)  September 7, 1878, p. 720, c. 4
ad, small size of Vanity Fair cigarettes exclusively for women

3)  October 4, 1884, p. 657, c. 3-4
item in the “Waifs and Strays” column, British women buying cigarettes for themselves

4)  September 22, 1894, p. 893
literary illustration, elegant society woman smoking at home in the presence of a man and another woman, from “The Master,” by I. Zangwill

5)  May 4, 1895, p. 417, c. 1-2
from “Life and Letters” column, discussion of English novels and the New Woman who smokes cigarettes, denies that is true for American women

6)  January 7, 1911, p. 19, c. 1-2
illustration, two women ask for the smoking car

7)  June 10, 1911, p. 26
cartoon, boy smoking his mother’s cigarettes


1)  January 16, 1858, p. 35, c. 2-3
Lounger letter, tobacco spitting and hoop skirts

2)  September 7, 1867, p. 576, c. 3-4
ad, chewing tobacco

3)  July 31, 1869, p. 495, c. 2
ad, chewing tobacco

4)  April 12, 1873, p. 302, c. 1
news item, “The Betel-Nut,” compares chewing tobacco addiction to use and effect of betel nut


1)  October 29, 1864, p. 700-701, c. 4
“Refugees at City Point,” pipe smoking among Civil War refugees from Virginia, illustration on p. 701

2)  January 29, 1881, p. 76, c. 1-2
literary illustration, rural (Cumberland Mt.) woman smoking a pipe on her doorstep, “Jack and the Mountain Pink,” by Sherwood Bonner (nom de plume of Katherine McDowell)

3)  February 23, 1867, p. 128, c. 1-3
cartoon, “A Quiet Smoke,” sisters are sick after smoking their brother’s pipe tobacco

4)  June 14, 1873, p. 503, c. 1
item in “Home and Foreign Gossip” column, pipe smoking female food vendors

5)  September 27, 1873, p. S864, c. 3-4
cartoon, “A New Era in City Travel,” Irish-American laundress in smoking car of city train

6)  July 9, 1859, p. 443, c. 3
verse, “Tobacco and I,” refers to women using snuff

7)  September 28, 1867, p. 619, c. 3
verse, “You Say Six Reasons Are Enough,” women gives six reasons hwy she uses snuff


1)  June 23, 1883, p. 387, c. 3
news item, filter urged for cigarettes

2)  January 15, 1887, p. 48, c. 1-2
illustrated ad for filtered cigarettes, which allegedly prevent nicotine inhalation

3)  May 26, 1906, pp. 751 and 753
news story, “What Happens When You Smoke,” explains the health dangers, and discusses new filtering system that supposedly makes it less unhealthy, but not totally so

4)  March 31, 1906, p. 455, c. 3
illustrated ad for Russian cigarets [sic] that allegedly prevent users from taking in tobacco’s poisons


1)  October 23, 1869, p. 683, c. 4
“Home and Foreign Gossip” column item, claim that watercress removes poisonous nicotine from tobacco

2)  June 12, 1886, p. 379, c. 3
“Waifs and Strays” column item, watercress theory again

3)  July 18, 1868, p. 462, p. 3-4
ad, smoking tobacco in which “all poisonous nicotine is extracted.”

4)  April 15, 1899, p. 387, c. 2
illustrated ad for “health cigars”

5)  July 28, 1906, p. 1077, c. 2
illustrated ad for another brand of health cigar

6)  November 18, 1911, p. 38, c. 3
illustrated ad for pipe with a bowl that allegedly absorbs dangerous nicotine

 
 

     
 

 
     
 

 
     
 

 

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